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Dr. Rose’s Arsenic Wafers

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

From the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalogue, 1897:

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Dr. Rose’s French Arsenic Complexion Wafers
OUR SPECIAL PRICE
Per box, 40c; per dozen, $4.25. OUR SPECIAL PRICE
For larger box, 79c; per dozen, $8.00
RETAILS GENERALLY FOR MORE THAN DOUBLE THE PRICE.

PERFECTLY HARMLESS when used in accordance with our directions, it possesses the “wizard’s touch” in producing, preserving and enhancing beauty of form and person in male and female by surely developing a transparency and pellucid clearness of complexion, shapely contour of form, brilliant eyes, soft and smooth skin, where by nature the reverse exists. (more…)

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